A review of the mud-dauber wasps of genus Sceliphron Klug (Hymenoptera Sphecidae) from India Author Anagha, S. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. Author Kumar, P. Girish 0000-0003-2121-0165 Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. & kpgiris @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2121 - 0165 kpgiris@gmail.com Author Binoy, C. 0000-0003-4309-5460 Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala- 673635, India. binoy _ doz @ uoc. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4309 - 5460 binoy_doz@uoc.ac.in Author Mazumdar, P. C. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal- 700053, India. Author Sureshan, P. M. 0000-0003-4722-6368 Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala- 673006, India. & pmsuresh 43 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4722 - 6368 pmsuresh43@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-05-10 4969 1 61 85 journal article 6436 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.1.3 a89f233a-0529-449a-b6c5-070ab02a539a 1175-5326 4745790 1D033B9B-D4EE-4578-9883-8D6ED3163EC8 4. Sceliphron javanum chinenense van Breugel, 1968 Sceliphron javanum chinense van Breugel in van der Vecht & van Breugel 1968: 244, ♀ , ♂ . Holotype : ♀ , China : Island of Hainan : Fan Heang (MCZ). Diagnosis. Mesoscutum more or less distinctly striate, but striae not sharply defined; scutellum longitudinally striate; second submarginal cell anteriorly as a rule narrower than third; hind tibia black; hind femur yellow, with usually ill defined fuscous mark at apex above; at least apical third of fore and mid femora yellow to yellowish brown; fore and mid tibiae orange yellow. According to van der Vecht & van Breugel (1968: 244), S. javanum chinense van Breugel is very similar to S. javanum javanum (Lepeletier) and S. javanum petiolare Kohl , but differs mainly by leg colour. Note . van der Vecht & van Breugel (1968) tentatively placed specimens from Sikkim , West Bengal , Assam (presently Meghalaya ) under S. javanum chinenense van Breugel as sufficient materials from these areas were not available for them. For this reason this subspecies has been excluded from the present study. Distribution . India : Meghalaya , Sikkim (?), West Bengal . Elsewhere : China ; Laos ; Vietnam (van der Vecht & van Breugel 1968; Pulawski 2021 ).